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San Franciscans are to vote this November on a measure that would require the city to get 51% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2017. www.enn.com.
The same measure calls for renewables to account for 75% by 2030, with a 100% goal by 2040.
If the initiative is approved, the city will undertake a [...]
Georgia Pipeline is New Strait of Hormuz as Putin Expands His ‘Energy War’
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The world has a new Strait of Hormuz, a choke point for oil that could send the global economy into a sudden tailspin.
That’s what the Russian incursion of Georgia really means. The pipeline running through Georgia capable of bringing 1.2 million barrels a day of Azerbaijani oil to the West can be taken [...]
Thanks to Emerging New Technology, Deepwater Wind Farms are the Wave of the Future
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The fastest growing electric generation segment is wind energy. Once a novel technology, wind farms are now “mainstream.” T. Boone Pickens recently gave the industry some “uplift” with his TV advertisements. In the United States wind energy is all land-based; the economics work. FPL Energy, the US leader has over 40% market share.
The [...]
WHAT WILL VERMONT BUILD FOR NEW ENERGY?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
What we have here is a failure to communicate. Don’t we?
The Vermont Energy Partnership, a bunch of Vermont institutions, apparently pretty heavily invested in nuclear energy – intellectually as well as materially – hasn’t heard thew news: Wind energy is now a mainstream, reliable force in the energy sector. The [...]
SOLAR SKIN: A SHEET OF TINY ANTENNAS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
There is word of more progress from the materials scientists trying to make a next generation solar cell that will be cheap and easy to put to work.
While chemists are thinking about a paint with embedded nanoreceptors that catch the sunlight and transform it to electricity, materials scientists at the [...]
BIOFUELS COMPANIES – UP & DOWN WITH OIL, CORN PRICES
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
NewEnergyNews is no fan of corn ethanol. In fact, NewEnergyNews is no fan of AGROfuels of any kind. In fact, NewEnergyNews has its doubts about any kind of biofuels produced from anything that grows in the ground.
That said, the contradictory cases of Biofuel Energy Corp. and VeraSun Energy are instructive.
Both [...]
Both a Conservative and a Green Investor? – Here’s a Portfolio for You (Part 4 of 4) Cleantech, 1st Trust Wind ETFs
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Are you a conservative investor who’d like to have a “green” portfolio but doesn’t want to take a chance on small companies with new technologies and business models that may or may not prove commercially viable? Then here’s a model portfolio for you. Call it the “conservatively green” portfolio. It features big-cap companies [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-14-08
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Australian government-funded research into carbon capture reportedly has resulted in a successful test of a liquid that strips CO2 from power station flue gasses. www.eurekalert.org
According to its developers, the technology, which was tested on a power plant in China, is capable of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by more than 85% on both existing [...]
Raymond James’ Two US-Based Wind Energy Choices: American Super-conductor, GreenHunter
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“Investors in wind power have plenty of reasons to be upbeat,” according to a new report from Raymond James & Associates, which recommends American Superconductor and GreenHunter Energy as companies that will enable investors “to gain exposure to the strong fundamentals of the wind industry.”
According to the investment banking firm, “prospects for wind [...]
GETTING THE BEST NEGAWATTS IN AUSTIN
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Austin Energy is widely seen as one of the finest community-owned public electric utilities in the U.S.
Among its many distinguished programs is the visionary Plug-in Partners national campaign to enlist fleet pre-orders for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and motivate U.S. auto makers to get busy making PHEVs to fill [...]
WILL PENNSYLVANIA BUILD ITS SOLAR POWER PLANT?
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Carbon County in Pennsylvania is coal country. Does that make it hard country for New Energy? Apparently not. It’s all about the investment. Some far-sighted, ambitious folks take empty land and build an energy resource, a solar power plant. They make energy and sell it. Why not?
Here’s the answer to [...]
UTILITY, POWER COMPANY TO BUILD NEW TRANSMISSION
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Expect lots of stories like this one for the rest of this year and into next year. Duke Energy and AEP are partnering to build Pioneer Transmission, a 240-mile new transmission line. Pre-existing power plants need the new transmission infrastructure, of course. But there’s something else. Duke and other power [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-13-08
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Responding to criticism by environmental groups that some of the carbon credits it’s certifying are bogus, the United Nations plans to tighten the rules on earning carbon offsets. uk.reuters.com
This is going to make it harder for speculators to cash in on projects in developing countries that serve to lower the overall amount carbon [...]
Both a Conservative and a Green Investor? – Here’s a Portfolio for You (Part 3 of 4) Philips and Cree
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Are you a conservative investor who’d like to have a “green” portfolio but doesn’t want to take a chance on small companies with new technologies and business models that may or may not prove commercially viable? Then here’s a model portfolio for you. Call it the “conservatively green” portfolio. It features big-cap companies [...]
CoaLogix (Pt. 2 of 2) – Catalyst Regeneration Tech Looks Like Remedy for Big ‘Hidden’ Environmental Problem
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What if you knew that every three or so years your neighborhood power plant produced enough nasty stuff like arsenic and vanadium to fill a football field-sized space in a landfill? Now what if you knew there was a technology that could greatly reduce this “hidden” environmental problem?
Welcome to Bill McMahon’s world. McMahon [...]
CoaLogix (Pt. 2 of 2) – Catalyst Regeneration Tech Looks Like Remedy for Big ‘Hidden’ Environmental Problem
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
What if you knew that every three or so years your neighborhood power plant produced enough nasty stuff like arsenic and vanadium to fill a football field-sized space in a landfill? Now what if you knew there was a technology that could greatly reduce this “hidden” environmental problem?
Welcome to Bill [...]
POLL FINDS AMERICANS WANTS ACTION ON ENERGY
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
Poll results can prove almost anything. Often, contradictory headlines announce the triumph of competing strategies over each other based on different aspects of the same poll. Some commentators, reading recent polls showing Americans to now favor oil drilling in protected offshore regions and in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), [...]
BIG WIND-MAKERS MAKE $381 MIL DAKOTAS DEAL
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
This is the news: Stories like this are no longer news.
Of course it’s not news that wind giants like GE Energy and ACCIONA are building a 180-megawatt installation. That wasn’t news last year.
What’s not news this year (making it news) is that the wind giants are building a big installation [...]
UNEASY WITH THE COST OF NEW ENERGY IN GEORGIA
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on New Energy and the cost for it: “Let the presidential candidates, Gov. Sonny Perdue and other politicos sing the glories of homegrown resources and energy independence. Let Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio make all the movies they want about global warming…Hardly anyone is buying it.”
But [...]
ETS Investor Alert 8-12-08
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Memo to John McCain:
Don’t be surprised if some reporter on the campaign trail asks you about the new federal energy department estimate to Congress, the one that concludes that, even if America doesn’t build the new nuclear power plants you want, it’s still going to cost nearly $100 billion to get rid of [...]
CoaLogix CEO McMahon (Pt 1 of 2) – Rules & Misguided Environmentalism Thwart Remedy to Coal Plant Emissions
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There is a straightforward and relatively simple way to deal with the environmental dangers of burning coal to generate electricity; however, regulations and misguided environmentalism are combining to send the U.S. in the wrong direction, all-but-guaranteeing that Americans will have to dig deep into their wallets as the nation enters a prolonged period [...]
Both a Conservative and a Green Investor? – Here’s a Portfolio for You (Part 2 of 4) GE and Johnson Controls
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Are you a conservative investor who’d like to have a “green” portfolio but doesn’t want to take a chance on small companies with new technologies and business models that may or may not prove commercially viable? Then here’s a model portfolio for you. Call it the “conservatively green” portfolio. It features big-cap companies [...]
THE FIGHT FOR NEW ENERGY IN FLORIDA
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The fight in Florida for New Energy is heating up, pitting legislators against utilities.
Republican Governor Charlie Crist has been pushing for years for a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) requiring utilities to obtain 20% of their power from New Energy sources by 2020.
Florida Power & Light (FP&L), a big New Energy [...]
UK BUILDING WIND WITH BOTH HANDS
Submitted by New Energy News Blog
The logic of New Energy is driving development around the world.
In the UK, conservatives continue to resist Prime Minister Brown’s ambitious goals for New Energy but his foresight seems more remarkable at each turn of events.
Just when oil prices started dropping, there was another pipeline disruption in Nigeria. And then [...]
4 NEW SOLAR POWER PLANTS FOR SPAIN
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Followers of action in the solar energy world are expecting a lot of stories like this one in the next few weeks as solar companies move fast on the remaining monies in Spain’s feed-in tariff (FiT) before it downshifts at the end of September.
The question U.S. solar energy leaders are [...]
